Movement for Choice Birth Control Book Talk

Join M4C for a book talk / fireside chat about all things birth control in an intimate setting provided by PLNTR??. Guided by Jonathan Eig's book, The Birth of The Pill, we will host a discussion that is meant to be a space for people to bring their (non-medical) questions about birth control, learn the history of birth control in society, and engage in a thoughtful discussion on the role of birth control in society.

From choosing to be celibate to the struggle of creating birth control for men, we intend to cover the different forms birth control can take. This talk is open to all people who are ready to engage in a discussion on the role birth control plays in our lives whether or not you use it! This conversation will result in a resource list to be shared with attendees. The first two people to register will receive a free copy of the book. ??

Goodreads Description of Book: We know it simply as ""the pill,"" yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a champion of birth control in her campaign for the rights of women but neglected her own children in pursuit of free love; the beautiful Katharine McCormick, who owed her fortune to her wealthy husband, the son of the founder of International Harvester and a schizophrenic; the visionary scientist Gregory Pincus, who was dismissed by Harvard in the 1930s as a result of his experimentation with in vitro fertilization but who, after he was approached by Sanger and McCormick, grew obsessed with the idea of inventing a drug that could stop ovulation; and the telegenic John Rock, a Catholic doctor from Boston who battled his own church to become an enormously effective advocate in the effort to win public approval for the drug that would be marketed by Searle as Enovid.

Spanning the years from Sanger’s heady Greenwich Village days in the early twentieth century to trial tests in Puerto Rico in the 1950s to the cusp of the sexual revolution in the 1960s, this is a grand story of radical feminist politics, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes. Brilliantly researched and briskly written, The Birth of the Pill is gripping social, cultural, and scientific history.

Host or Publisher Movement For Choice